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"Collegiality" hinders appointments of female executives

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
When selecting new board members, a majority (66.7%) of ASX 200 company boards tend to gravitate towards candidates whom they know - a situation which hinders the selection of female employees to male-dominated boards, according to a new survey from ...

Gesundheit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
"When Wall Street sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold." The heightened volatility in the week of 5-9 February 2018 took down the S&P 500 index and the DJIA by 5.2% each. Spooky perhaps, but still a decent outcome especially when the 2018 to ...

Chief economist update: The spook on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
Uh-oh. This shouldn't be happening! No, no, no. Only a few days after Fundstrat Global Advisors co-founder Tom Lee went public and declared the stock market in a "parabolic rise" - a bullish signal for the remainder of the year and which has failed ...

Advice industry must think bigger: Netwealth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
Australia's financial advice industry should pay heed to the likes of Facebook, Google and Uber if it is to meet the evolving expectations of clients. Speaking at the inaugural IMAP InvestTech conference in Sydney today, netwealth joint managing director ...

Retailers should be wary of Amazon: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
The majority of people polled in Financial Standard's weekly survey believe the launch of Amazon Marketplace in Australia has potentially dire consequences for local retailers. One-in-four (25%) respondents strongly agree the e-commerce giant will negatively ...

Inconsistency, communication top adviser bugbears

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
Advisers should be mindful of consistently carrying out processes and procedures for all clients or risk getting caught out, warns an industry expert. This is a common pitfall and an important message MiQ Private Wealth partner Lisa Weissel is sharing ...

Financial services firms eye machine learning

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
Machine learning is transforming the way financial services operates, as a growing number of Australian firms are adopting it to make sense of big data and to improve productivity. According to Bloomberg, more than half (55%) of Australian financial ...

Managed accounts forum unveils new format, adviser focus

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
The Financial Standard Best Practice Forum on Managed Accounts is introducing an entirely new and innovative format in 2017, placing financial advisers front and centre of the one-day conference. Financial Standard launches a new program format called ...

Finance braces for Amazon effect

EMMA RAPAPORT AND DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
The arrival of Amazon Marketplace in Australia will disrupt several businesses and the financial services industry won't be immune to the online store's influence. Already sending shockwaves through local major retailers, Australian fintech Avoka believes ...

Females dominating non-concessional contributions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
Women are more likely to make non-concessional contributions into their superannuation than men, new insights show. A new report from Vanguard analysing data from Sunsuper's membership of over one million Australians shows that 60% of members making ...